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Missy Gibson Interview, Pt. 2
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Summer and Fusion: the Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena’s Pacific Asia Museum is having a festive, active summer! Their third “Fusion Friday” in their summer series happens this Friday, July 20th, and is themed, “Sound Off!” The evening focuses on all kinds of sound: audio games, the music of Japanese folk-fusion band Minyo Station, and DJs spinning Indian music!
Marketing director Chelsea Mason says the Friday-night party is just one event planned for this weekend. The Pacific Asia Museum’s also having an art workshop, based on the work of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi on Saturday, July 21st–AND a presentation by author Wenguang Huang on Sunday, July 22nd! Continue reading
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Delicious Display at the Orange County Fair
“Chocolate!” “WHERE?” At the Orange County Fair!
The 123rd edition of the Orange County Fair carries through on its theme, “Home Sweet Home,” with a nearly three-thousand-square-foot exhibit dedicated to chocolate! And in the midst of the historic facts (who knew that the Vatican once debated whether chocolate was a food?) and displays, is Irvine-based Xan Confections.
Lauren McCusker, Xan Confections’ head chocolatier, is onsite at the new Fair exhibit, “Chocolate Unwrapped: Beans, Bars and Bon Bons.” As Xan offers its unique line of artisan chocolates, she talks about some of the lesser-known facts about Americans’ favorite “guilty pleasure”–and keeps a watchful eye on that tantalizing chocolate-tempering unit!
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Cubensis: a Tribute Band with Originality
The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association’s “Best of Music in the L.A. Zoo” program features an eclectic mix of area bands: blues, classic rock, and pop. And they’ll all be playing on stages throughout the zoo, from 6 to 9 p.m. this evening, Friday, July 13th!
One of the featured bands will be L.A.’s premiere Grateful Dead tribute band, Cubensis. Lead guitarist Craig Marshall has been “on the bus” since a November, 1967 Grateful Dead concert in Los Angeles. Craig founded his tribute band, Cubensis, twenty years later–and they’ll be celebrating their twenty-fifth anniversary later this year! Continue reading
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